Game apparatus.



S. A. VINTON. GAME APAnA'rus.

7 APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1912. 1,086,959. Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

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SQUIRE A. VINTON, 0F OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

Application filed August 21, 1912. Serial No. 716,261.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Somme A. V'iN'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Okolona, in the county of Chickasaw and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved game apparatus for playing a game which I will call Vinton the said game apparatus consisting in the construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing :F igure 1 is a plan view of a game apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the line a-a of Fig. 1.

In accordance with my invention, I pro vide a game board 1 of suitable dimensions and which is here shown as of oblong rectangular form. At the ends of the game board are walls 2 which extend across the same and at the sides of the board are Walls 3 which extend from end to end thereof. Each wall is provided on its inner side with an overhanging cushion 4. At a suitable distance from each end of the game board is a series of pockets 5 which pockets are arranged in transverse lines. As here shown, there are five of the pockets in each line. The pockets of each line are, respectively, provided with indicating numbers, two, six, ten, eight and four. At opposite ends of the game board on diagonally opposite sides, are counterboards 11 which are provided with openings 12, counter-pins 13 being pro vided which may be placed in any of the said openings.

The game is played with balls and ones. The board should be placed on a table which is level. To decide who shall have the first shot, each player takes a b ll and banks off a shot from one end of the board. The

' ball is placed or spotted anywhere between the line of pockets and the players end of the board and with the one shot to the opposite end. The player whose ball stops nearest the end from which it was shot has the first shot. In playing the game, each player takes four balls, spots one on the center spot and spots the other at any place he may prefer inside the line of pockets at his end of the board and with the cue shoots at the ball on the center spot. If he hits the center ball and drives it or the ball which he shoots into a pocket, he can then shoot at any ball on the board with the two remaining balls. The player counts up on the counter-board at his end of the board as many points as he is entitled to, according to the numbers of the pockets occupied by the. balls. If the player shoots both of the balls into a pocket he then spots one of the remaining balls on the center spot and shoots the remaining balls. The opponent then takes the balls and places them and shoots in the same way. No ball counts unless it hits some other balls before entering a pocket. No ball counts that comes back to the pocket at the end of the board from which it was played, and if a ball enters such a pocket it becomes dead.

The herein described game board provided with transverse rows of pockets spaced from its ends, there being five pockets in each row and each pocket having a point designating number, and a wall extending around the sides and ends of the board and having cushion on its inner side.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SQU IRE A. VINTON.

Witnesses W. P. Knox,

L. S. BREWSTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Sammissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

